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- 8
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- 4
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- 279-289
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Hajime Kono,
Kenneth L. Rock
(2008).
How dying cells alert the immune system to danger.
Nature reviews. Immunology
, 8
(4)
, 279-289.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nri2215
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- 10.1038/nri2215